Burkina Faso: Improve maternal health in Burkina Faso [postcard]

IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH IN BURKINA FASO HEALTH IS A HUMAN RIGHT Dear Minister, As you know, early, mistimed and unwanted pregnancies contribute greatly to the health risks for both women and babies in Burkina Faso. [...] Faced with an unwanted pregnancy, many women, especially unmarried girls, resort to unsafe abortions. [...] Ensuring access to voluntary, safe and effective family planning and contraceptive methods is therefore a vital part of any strategy for reducing maternal mortality. [...] M. Seydou Bouda Your government has acknowledged the importance to every human Ministre de la Santé being of enjoying sexual and reproductive rights when, in December Ministère de la Santé 2005, it adopted a Law on Reproductive Health. [...] However, four years after the adoption of this law, the government has still not done enough 03 BP 7005 to implement it and to inform women and men about their rights.